Nature is an essay written by Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is in this essay that the foundation of transcendentalism is put forth, a belief system that espouses a non-traditional appreciation of nature.... More > Transcendentalism suggests that divinity suffuses all nature, and speaks to the notion that we can only understand reality through studying nature.
Henry David Thoreau had read "Nature" as a senior at Harvard College and took it to heart. It eventually became an essential influence for Thoreau's later writings, including his seminal Walden. In fact, Thoreau wrote Walden while living in a self-built cabin on land that Emerson owned. Their longstanding acquaintance offered Thoreau great encouragement in pursuing his desire to be a published author.
Emerson followed the success of this essay with a famous speech entitled "The American Scholar". These two works laid the foundation for both his new philosophy and his literary career.< Less

OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their... More > eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? Put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe? The sun shines to-day also. There is more wool and flax in the fields. There are new lands, new men, new thoughts. Let us demand our own works and laws and worship.
Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as truth. In like manner, nature is already, in its forms and tendencies, describing its own design. Let us interrogate the great apparition, that shines so peacefully around us. Let us inquire, to what end is nature?< Less

RALPH WALDO EMERSON
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, the American writer and moralist, was born at Boston on May 25, 1803, of English stock and a family of preachers. He was educated at Harvard for the... More > Unitarian ministry, and became a settled pastor in Boston before he was twenty-six. Three years later he resigned his charge owing to theological disagreements. In 1833 he visited Europe and England as a hero worshipper, his desire being to meet Landor, Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Carlyle. He saw them all, and formed a lifelong friendship with Carlyle. Returning to America, he settled at Concord, where he lived till his death, on April. 27, 1882. His public work took the form of lectures, of which his books are reproductions. In 1836 he published his first book, "Nature," anonymously. "Nature" was the germ essay from which all Emerson's later work sprang, a first expression of thoughts that were expanded and developed later.< Less

Written by Raw Food Chef Olive Mackey, this book is filled to the brim with recipes for natural water infusions, elixirs, and concoctions. Each recipe will teach you about the benefits of the... More > ingredients and the best way to extract flavors you never would have thought to combine. They will have you thinking about water from an entirely new perspective!< Less

We need to rethink the way we consider life, physics and the universe, says scientist-theologian Colin M Price. All living things are inter-dependent. The earth should be considered as a single... More > bioform, LIFE. Yet the moon is barren. The dot on this “i” might cover 200 living cells, each highly complex. Magnify a cell 2 billion times, to the size of an oil refinery, and it would cause panic and amazement at its complexity and productivity. Where does its energy come from? The author asks: How did so much order come about when physics predicts the opposite? The order of any system, including the entire universe, should decline with time. Order should have been greatest at the Big Bang, 14 billion years ago! The probability of the Big Bang arising by chance is one in 10 to the power of ten itself raised to the power of 123! Life on earth is IMPOSSIBLE. Yet life exists. WHY? Topics include: Can scientists create life from scratch? Why were the dinosaurs so big? Life is no accident! It's INTENDED!< Less

Poetry is the common language of humanity. Everyone speaks his or her heart and soul in words that take shape in the heart and soul of the reader. Harry Mason looks at the paths that each of us must... More > choose in living our lives. He touches upon our relationship with God, our families, and our friends. He speaks of happiness and sadness, trials and victories. To celebrate his 100th birthday his family wanted to share his poems with the world.< Less

Rising to fame from it's humble start on www.lemonsunshine.com, this ground breaking book is changing how people live worldwide. Power packed with natural non toxic recipes for your home, your... More > laundry, your skin, hair and health care, every essential is listed. Resources are given, and nine images are shown to help you while shopping. Most of the seven raw ingredients are found in the baking and antiseptic sections of your grocery store. Going Green by following these mixtures will have tremendous positive health effects on you, your family, and pets. Many mixture recipes, suggestions and tips are given in each chapter. I will also give you recipes derived from the Secret Seven to replace all of your spray cleaners. I share many natural beauty secrets from around the world. You will be able to create your own mixtures, similar to the expensive beauty products, yet customized for your own particular needs.< Less

Rising to fame from it's humble start on www.lemonsunshine.com, this ground breaking book is changing how people live worldwide. Power packed with natural non toxic recipes for your home, your... More > laundry, your skin, hair and health care, every essential is listed. Resources are given, and nine images are shown to help you while shopping. Most of the seven raw ingredients are found in the baking and antiseptic sections of your grocery store. Going Green by following these mixtures will have tremendous positive health effects on you, your family, and pets. Many mixture recipes, suggestions and tips are given in each chapter. I will also give you recipes derived from the Secret Seven to replace all of your spray cleaners. I share many natural beauty secrets from around the world. You will be able to create your own mixtures, similar to the expensive beauty products, yet customized for your own particular needs.< Less

“Faith”—What is it really? How is it defined? What is its nature? How does faith function within a biblical framework? Is faith something we believe and are convinced of? Or is it... More > something we do or exercise? Is faith a verb or a noun? How do we know if we even have saving faith? Faith is such a simple word. We use it all the time in the context of Christian experience. Yet, many struggle to truly understand its nature. Trust, believe, faith, and faithfulness all carry profound implications depending on how we understand and define the Greek and Hebrew terms from which these English words are derived. Ultimately, we know that Yeshua (Jesus) is the focus of our faith, and in Him all our statements of belief cohere or come together. Yet, when Yeshua describes true “saving faith,” He does so in terms not only of what one thinks about Him, but what one does because of Him. Ultimately, if faith without works is a dead faith, what does a living faith look like?< Less

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